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Best Restaurants for Brunch in Manila (2026)

Brunch · Manila · 7 tables ranked · Updated August 2026

Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Updated August 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections

Manila brunch splits cleanly into two scenes. One is the hotel buffet on a grand scale, where Makati's five-star kitchens run live paella, caviar and raclette stations for a Sunday that doubles as the family event of the week. The other is the cafe room that the Australian and American cooks built in Makati and Bonifacio Global City through the 2010s, anchored on eggs, sourdough and a properly pulled flat white. The six rooms below cover both registers, from a PHP4,500 Raffles spread to a PHP325 skillet of baked eggs. Traffic is the real enemy here, so the rule that beats the weekend crowd is the same across all of them: arrive before 11 and take the first turn.

The ranking

1. Wildflour Cafe + Bakery · All-day cafe and bakery · Salcedo Village, Makati

Multiple branches; flagship at V Corporate Centre, Salcedo Village · plates around PHP400 to PHP700 · founded 2012

Manila's benchmark all-day brunch since 2012; malunggay pandesal, eggs and a serious bakery. Take the 9am Salcedo table.

Wildflour opened in Salcedo Village in 2012 and set the template the rest of Manila's cafe scene has worked from since. Founder Ana Lorenzana de Ocampo runs a New-York-bistro register crossed with a real bakery: a malunggay pandesal, a wagyu corned-beef hash, a kale-and-quinoa bowl and an eggs Benedict, with plates around PHP400 to PHP700 and a pastry case that is the structural advantage over every cafe trading on the same word. The Salcedo flagship sits in the business district's quietest corner and opens early on weekends, which is the whole game in a city where the brunch rush and the traffic peak arrive together. The cooking has held its standard across more than a decade and six branches, and the bread is baked in-house rather than bought in. It is the single most reliable brunch in Manila, and the one to default to when a plan falls through.

2. Mireio · French Mediterranean buffet · Raffles Makati

Top floor, Raffles Makati, Greenbelt · Sunday Brunch Society at PHP4,500 per person · rooftop room

The Raffles rooftop Sunday spread with caviar, live paella and raclette stations. Book it for the family event of the month.

Mireio sits on the top floor of Raffles Makati above Greenbelt and runs the most ambitious buffet brunch in the city under the Brunch Society banner every Sunday from noon. The French-Mediterranean kitchen builds the spread around a caviar station, a live paella pan, a raclette wheel and six rotating mains, with the seated price at PHP4,500 per person and a free-flow cocktail and mocktail upgrade from PHP1,800. The room is a glass box with a terrace and one of the best high-floor outlooks in Makati, which is why regulars treat the Sunday slot as the standing family occasion rather than a casual meal. The pacing is luxury-hotel rather than cafe, so this is a sit-for-three-hours plan, not a quick plate. For the grand-buffet register done at the top of the market, it is the clear Manila answer.

3. Antipodean Coffee Roasters · Australian cafe · Legazpi Village, Makati

Rada Street, Legazpi Village · brunch plates around PHP350 to PHP600 · Australian-roaster cafe

The Legazpi Village roaster doing Melbourne brunch on its own beans; eggs Benedict and Nasi Goreng breakfast. Order the flat white.

Antipodean brought the Australian roaster-cafe model to Legazpi Village and runs brunch the way Melbourne taught it, built on coffee it roasts itself. The kitchen covers the classics with care, an eggs Benedict and a French toast, and breaks the format with a Nasi Goreng big breakfast and deep-fried confritters that give the menu a Southeast-Asian accent the imported cafes miss, with plates around PHP350 to PHP600. The room is small, relaxed and built for the long weekend table rather than the quick takeaway, and the espresso is the point: a flat white here holds up against any in the city. Legazpi Village is the calmer half of Makati on a weekend, with the Sunday market a short walk away, which makes the room an easy anchor for a slow morning. It is the coffee-first brunch for the table that cares what is in the cup.

4. Toby's Estate · Specialty coffee and brunch · Bonifacio Global City

Multiple branches incl. BGC and Salcedo · the Traviata skillet at PHP325 · Australian coffee group

The Sydney coffee import with the best-value brunch plate in town; the Traviata egg skillet at PHP325. Go on a weekday.

Toby's Estate carried the Sydney specialty-coffee brand into Manila and has grown into one of the most dependable weekday-and-weekend brunch rooms in BGC and Makati. The signature plate is the Traviata, a skillet of eggs baked with ricotta and tomato compote, finished with arugula and a slice of rustic bread, at PHP325, which is the best-value serious brunch dish on this list. The wider menu runs the cafe canon of avocado toast, granola bowls and a big breakfast, with most plates landing well under PHP600. The coffee programme is the reason it earns the brunch label rather than the cafe one, and the BGC branches open early enough to beat the weekend rush. It is the room to pick when the brief is good eggs, good coffee and a bill that does not sting, especially midweek when the queues vanish.

5. Blackbird · Modern brasserie · Nielson Tower, Makati

Nielson Tower, Ayala Triangle Gardens, Makati · weekend brunch around PHP800 to PHP1,400 · art-deco landmark

Weekend brunch inside Makati's 1937 art-deco airport tower; a grand room for the celebratory plate. Book the Sunday window table.

Blackbird occupies the restored 1937 Nielson Tower, Manila's first airport control tower, in the middle of Ayala Triangle Gardens, and it is the most architecturally serious brunch room in the city. Chef-driven and run as a modern brasserie, the weekend brunch leans on a confident eggs-and-griddle programme alongside larger plates, with a spend around PHP800 to PHP1,400 that sits between the cafe rooms and the hotel buffets. The double-height art-deco interior and the wraparound windows over the gardens make it the pick when the meal is the occasion rather than a refuel, a birthday or a visiting-parents Sunday. It is not the cheapest or the fastest option here, and it is not built for a solo quick bite. For a celebratory weekend table in a genuine landmark, it is the one to reserve.

6. Early Bird Breakfast Club · All-day breakfast · Bonifacio Global City

Forbes Town and other branches · plates around PHP350 to PHP650 · all-day breakfast specialist

The all-day breakfast club built entirely around the morning plate; corned-beef hash and big breakfasts past noon. Walk in late.

Early Bird Breakfast Club does one thing and does it all day: the morning plate, served from open to close, which makes it the answer for the late riser the rest of the brunch map punishes. The menu runs corned-beef hash, a tower of pancakes, eggs every way and a full breakfast, with plates around PHP350 to PHP650, in a bright diner-leaning room built for groups rather than couples. The all-day format is the structural edge in a city where most kitchens close their breakfast service by mid-afternoon, so a 2pm brunch craving has a real home here. The cooking is comfort-first rather than precise, and the coffee is solid rather than a destination in itself. For a relaxed, no-reservation group brunch that does not care what time you wandered in, it is the BGC default.

Avoid for brunch in Manila

Hotel Sunday buffets as a quick meal · citywide. The five-star Sunday spreads, Mireio included, are a three-hour event priced and paced as one. If the brief is a fast plate of eggs before a busy day, they are the wrong format. Default to Wildflour or Toby's Estate for the quick version.

Greenbelt and BGC mall cafes at the 1pm peak · Makati. The chain cafes inside the malls advertise brunch and deliver a long queue and a microwaved plate at the Sunday peak. Walk the extra few minutes to Antipodean in Legazpi Village or arrive at a real room before 11 instead.

Manila Bay tourist-strip breakfast rooms · Ermita and Malate. The breakfast spots on the tourist strip trade on the bay view and the location rather than the cooking. For a brunch worth the morning, the Makati and BGC rooms on this list out-cook them comfortably.

How to brunch in Manila

The single most useful rule is to brunch against the traffic. Manila's weekend congestion and its brunch rush peak together from late morning, so the first turn at opening, usually 8 or 9, is the difference between a calm table and a forty-minute crawl across Makati. Wildflour, Toby's Estate and Antipodean all reward the early arrival, and the kitchens are sharper before the rush.

Match the room to the occasion and the budget. For the standing family event, the Sunday buffet at Mireio is the set piece; for a celebratory table in a landmark, Blackbird; for a quick, good-value weekday plate, Toby's Estate or Early Bird. The gap between a PHP325 skillet and a PHP4,500 spread on this list is real, so pick the register before the venue.

Stay inside Makati and BGC for the reliable scene. The two business districts hold the densest run of genuine brunch rooms in the metro, they are walkable once you are parked, and the cafes there open earliest. Build the brunch into a Salcedo or Legazpi market morning rather than treating it as a stop, which is how the districts themselves use the meal.

Frequently asked

What is the best brunch in Manila?

Wildflour Cafe + Bakery in Salcedo Village. The room that set the template for Manila's cafe brunch in 2012 still runs the most reliable version, anchored by its in-house bakery, a malunggay pandesal and a strong eggs programme, with plates around PHP400 to PHP700. Arrive at opening on a weekend, because the Salcedo flagship fills fast once the rush and the traffic arrive together. For the grand-buffet alternative, the Sunday Brunch Society at Mireio in Raffles Makati is the second pick.

How much does brunch cost in Manila?

It spans a wide range. The cafe rooms on this list run roughly PHP350 to PHP700 a plate, so a full brunch with coffee lands near PHP600 to PHP1,000 a head. The celebratory rooms cost more, with Blackbird around PHP800 to PHP1,400 per person, and the top of the market is the Sunday buffet at Mireio at PHP4,500. Toby's Estate has the best-value serious plate, the Traviata skillet at PHP325.

Where is the best brunch buffet in Manila?

The Sunday Brunch Society at Mireio, on the top floor of Raffles Makati, is the standout. The French-Mediterranean spread runs a caviar station, a live paella pan and a raclette wheel alongside six rotating mains, at PHP4,500 per person with a free-flow drinks upgrade from PHP1,800. It is a three-hour event with a rooftop terrace, so book it for an occasion rather than a quick meal.

Does Manila brunch take reservations?

The hotel buffets and the celebratory rooms do, and you should book them. Mireio's Sunday brunch and a weekend table at Blackbird both need reserving ahead, especially for a window seat. The cafe rooms, including Wildflour, Antipodean, Toby's Estate and Early Bird, mostly run walk-in, so the lever there is timing rather than booking: arrive before 11 to skip the queue.

Which Manila neighbourhood is best for brunch?

Makati and Bonifacio Global City hold the densest and most reliable brunch scene. Salcedo and Legazpi Villages in Makati anchor the cafe side with Wildflour and Antipodean, while BGC adds Toby's Estate and Early Bird. The grand hotel brunches cluster in Makati too, with Mireio at Raffles the leader. Both districts are walkable once parked and their cafes open earliest.

What should I order for brunch in Manila?

Order to each room's strength: the malunggay pandesal and corned-beef hash at Wildflour, the Traviata egg skillet at Toby's Estate, the Nasi Goreng big breakfast at Antipodean, and the live-paella plate at Mireio's buffet. Across the cafe rooms, the coffee is part of the point, so order a properly pulled flat white rather than a default brewed cup.

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